Apartment Zero
Apartment Zero, also known as Conviviendo con la muerte (Spanish: Living with Death), is a 1989 British-Argentine psychological-political thriller film directed by Argentine-born screenwriter Martin Donovan, co-written by Donovan and David Koepp and starring Hart Bochner and Colin Firth. It was produced in 1988 and premiered at film festivals throughout the next year. The story is set in a rundown area of Buenos Aires at the dawn of the 1980s, where Adrian LeDuc becomes friends with Jack Carney, an American expatriate who rents a room from him. Gradually, Adrian begins to suspect that the outwardly likeable Jack is responsible for a series of political assassinations that are rocking the city.
Plot
Adrian LeDuc (Firth) is the British owner of a revival house in Buenos Aires. Apart from his mother, the core of his emotional life is movies, specifically classic American movies and stars. The story begins with Adrian in his theater, watching the final scene of Touch of Evil.
Cast
- Alfredo Quesada
- Cipe Lincovsky
- Colin Firth
- Dora Bryan
- Elvia Andreoli
- Fabrizio Bentivoglio
- Federico D'Elía
- Francesca D'Aloja
- Gabriel Corrado
- Germán Palacios
- Hart Bochner
- Horacio Erman
- Inés Estévez
- John Kamps
- Juan Vitali
- Liz Smith
- Marikena Monti
- Max Berliner
- Miguel Ángel Porro
- Miguel Ligero
- Mirella D'Angelo
- Raúl Florido
More details
author | David Koepp Martin Donovan |
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contentLocation | Argentina |
director | Martin Donovan |
editor | Conrad M. Gonzalez |
genre | political thriller |
keywords | adult theater buenos aires build california classic american movies classical hollywood cinema dead man death squad even gay gay man happen horrify injured its last civil-military dictatorship leather jacket living room lose morning national reorganization process passport porn theater revival house series of murders smoke strike their way tick touch of evil young man |
musicBy | Elia Cmiral |
producer | David Koepp Martin Donovan |
productionCompany | Producers Representative Organization The Summit Company |
publisher | Union Station Media |
theme | lgbt-related neo-noir political thriller psychological thriller spy war |